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@vikhyatk "Excited to release a preview of Moondream X. A 9B param 2B active MoE vision language model that makes no compromises; offering state-of-the-art visual reasoning while still retaining an efficient and deployment-friendly form factor"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-09-18T22:11Z 23.1K followers, 225.7K engagements

"rank X lora grpo experiment tested on qwen every single time"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-03T05:53Z 23.1K followers, 22.5K engagements

"why did you get 96GB of RAM what are you going to do with it idk maybe ill run two electron apps at the same time"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-08T05:22Z 23.1K followers, 123K engagements

"cloud providers shouldn't have good ux their margins should be so thin they can't afford designers"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-15T01:32Z 23.1K followers, 4748 engagements

"LPIPS (typically) uses frozen AlexNet features with a learned linear head. Trained on 484k MTurk samples asking people which of two distortions was closer to a sampled 64x64 patch. Used as a component of the training loss. It's surprising we're still using this 2017-era proxy"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-15T01:47Z 23.1K followers, 4950 engagements

"made a cute logo for our internal inference engine"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-15T03:48Z 23.1K followers, 4215 engagements

"losing $20b a year with $13b in revenue stop looking at spreadsheets. go try out codex. if anything theyre undervalued"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-16T07:58Z 23.1K followers, 195.9K engagements

"cant believe how good clickhouse is"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-16T16:36Z 23.1K followers, 1935 engagements

"@init_malachi my standard pattern used to by dynamodb master and elasticsearch for analytics. clickhouse is a better elasticsearch replacement. but dont make it master"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-16T22:01Z 23.1K followers, XX engagements

""Some people asked me why I didn't use Gemini. I tried to use it but the detection wasn't that good. Moondream was the best at this.""
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-17T18:52Z 23.1K followers, 4993 engagements

"having worked on a lot of "enterprise grade" code in my career all i'll say is you shouldn't treat it as a compliment"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-19T04:59Z 23.1K followers, 6397 engagements

"if you spend $4.2M on ablations and don't deliver a significant improvement upon state of the art the rest of your assets should be seized and put to better use"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-19T05:04Z 23.1K followers, 30.7K engagements

"you don't build in "stealth mode" because you're worried about someone stealing your idea you do it because "announcing your raise / coming out of stealth" is a press event that generates a lot of eyeballs you want to have a product to direct those eyeballs to"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-19T20:11Z 23.1K followers, 18.3K engagements

"@HeadBetwixKnees yeah the ui is a bit confusing but it has a lot of features"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-19T23:32Z 23.1K followers, XX engagements

"@karpathy btw image-input-only was explored in pix2struct"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-21T08:52Z 23.1K followers, 4964 engagements

"Im like XXXXX% sure this is because he has beef with Sam Altman because they didnt add Airbnb booking UX to ChatGPT not because of any technical or cost reasons"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-21T22:48Z 23.1K followers, 81.9K engagements

"they have a word for everything"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-22T19:17Z 23.1K followers, 4460 engagements

"Benchmark question: "What is the overall theme of the image" A: A woman in different polka dot dresses B: A stone wall along a stone path C: A woman in an outdoor setting D: A house with a black roof (poll in reply)"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-09-11T21:47Z 23.1K followers, 15.6K engagements

"compared to the "Gated Attention for Large Language Models" paper X. we have G4 and G2 but not G1 X. we allow gating to be conditioned on log(pos) (i actually think it should be sqrt(log(pos)) but that's a topic for a different post). this helps with long ctx"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-09-20T19:05Z 23.1K followers, 37.6K engagements

"i think G2/G4 help with exploding attention logits whereas G1 helps with attention sparsity/sinks. i also see a parallel between G1 and the gpt-oss attention sinks except S is now q-dependent instead of static"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-09-20T19:05Z 23.1K followers, 1735 engagements

"how do i stop being underrated this feels like a failure. i want to be overrated"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-09-24T19:38Z 23.1K followers, 44.1K engagements

"Just turned off our last X EC2 instances -- Moondream Cloud inference is now running XXX% on FAL"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-14T02:40Z 23.1K followers, 47K engagements

"I still dont know what Salesforce really does"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-15T16:35Z 23.1K followers, 13.1K engagements

"are you kidding me i can't put tr inside table now fuck nextjs fuck technology fuck you all i'm done"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-17T04:56Z 23.1K followers, 489.7K engagements

"@modeless this is a blog post i feel like it should have an authentic voice. for humans by humans"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-17T05:24Z 23.1K followers, 40.2K engagements

"Moondream Cloud is here. Thank you for your attention to this matter"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-17T16:28Z 23.1K followers, 53.3K engagements

"@ludwigABAP when i turn XX i will be posting on subs*ack not here"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-19T06:18Z 23.1K followers, XXX engagements

"our login broke. went to sst to check why theirs was also broken. turns out us-east-1 is down"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-20T07:19Z 23.1K followers, 13.6K engagements

"i figured out how to reboot and it's fine but. "Bailing out you are on your own. Good luck." .is not something you ever want your computer to say to you"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-20T19:19Z 23.1K followers, 125.9K engagements

"@gpu_thief tried to take a screenshot"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-20T22:20Z 23.1K followers, 10.2K engagements

"in most cases you should retry once immediately then propagate the failure. save the retry with exponential backoff for the very top of your stack closest to the customer"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-21T03:42Z 23.1K followers, 2893 engagements

"many are asking"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-21T04:02Z 23.1K followers, 5894 engagements

"wall street realizing people still use aws aws realizing they now need to schedule quarterly outages"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-21T16:18Z 23.1K followers, 5601 engagements

"@SIGKITTEN they have unlimited codex inference"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-21T21:14Z 23.1K followers, XXX engagements

"@apanasenko Why do you think he pulled the plug"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-22T01:40Z 23.1K followers, 2429 engagements

"@apanasenko @bleuonbase heh youd be surprised"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-22T03:24Z 23.1K followers, 1071 engagements

"bookmarking without liking is extremely antisocial behavior"
X Link @vikhyatk 2025-10-23T06:32Z 23.1K followers, 13.3K engagements